Tuesday, April 29, 2008
hume- section 10- of miracles
In this section, Hume is digging into the idea of miracles. On page 78, Hume started talking about something that really got me thinking. He said, "The passion of surprise and wonder, arising from miracles, being an agreeable emotion, gives a sensible tendency towards the belief of those events, from which it is derived." Hume says that people who can not beleive miraculous things at first, later on come to admire the people or things involved in the event. I was thinking about how he incorporated surprise and wonder into the miracles section. It is like after a miracle occurs one can be surprised by what has happened but since it has happened they beleive it. Also, after a miracle occurs one can wonder about what has happened either by asking why, how or wondering what else may happen. What I am getting at is that after someone experiences a miracle they wonder about things and wondering usually includes using their imagination and imagining oh if this were true than that would happen. After they use their imagination they start to think of ways to make their solution come true. I really feel like that is how we got science to be as far advanced as it is now. Miracles lead the imagination which makes people wonder up great ideas to create solutions for big problems.
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This could be true that this is how they became advanced in the field of science. I love believing that miracles could happen to anyone. I think if I actually witnessed a miracle I would be in shock and have tons of questions to ask! "who, what, when, where, why,... HOW?!?!"
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